In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 Book

Conventional wisdom has it that there were no blacks in the Wild West, but In Search of the Racial Frontier powerfully demonstrates otherwise. Beginning with Esteban, a black slave who accompanied a party of Spanish explorers in Texas and the Southwest in the 1500s, historian Quintard Taylor traces the history of blacks in the West. He documents the experiences of black explorers, black mountain men, black cowboys, buffalo soldiers, and black women who joined clubs and "progressive associations" and helped found all-black towns. Wide-ranging in scope and thoroughly researched, In Search of the Racial Frontier is an invaluable addition to any American history bookshelf.Read More

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    A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi. From its surprising discussions of groups of African Americans wholly absorbed into Native American culture to illustrating how the largely forgotten role of blacks in the West helped contribute to everything form the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ruling to the rise of the Black Panther Party. Quintard Taylor fills a major void in American history and reminds us that the African American experience is unlimited by region or social status.

  • 0393318893
  • 9780393318890
  • Quintard Taylor
  • 4 August 1999
  • WW Norton & Co
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416
  • New edition
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